Julia Power

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Julia Power (died June 22, 1960) was an American lecturer of English literature. A specialist in Shelley, she was a winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (1941).

She was born in Newcastle, Dixon County, Nebraska. [1] [2] She attended the University of Nebraska, where she obtained her bachelor of arts degree in English, and a doctorate (1938) with a dissertation on the poet Shelley. Her thesis, Shelley in America in the Nineteenth Century, won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1941. [3]

In 1929, Power travelled to England, attending lectures at Cambridge. [4]

Prior to her doctorate, Power had been a teacher at the Bancroft High School and other schools in Nebraska. She taught at St Teresa College in Kansas City, Missouri, [5] as well as Omaha University, Montana State College and the University of Minnesota. [2] She was superintendent of Johnstown, Nebraska schools in 1943. [6]

Power died June 22, 1960, age 72 in Lincoln, Nebraska. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Deaths and funerals". Lincoln Evening Journal. June 23, 1960. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Julia Power Wins English Award". Lyons Mirror-Sun. July 31, 1941. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Dr Power gets British academy literary award". Evening State Journal. July 29, 1941. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Business & Professional Women's Club". Lincoln State Journal. September 1, 1929. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
  5. ↑ "About people - in town and out". Lincoln Journal. September 30, 1944. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Johnstown". Brown County Democrat. December 24, 1943. Retrieved April 2, 2021.


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